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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    1. Ronald W. Schonfeld collection

    Theresienstadt scrip, valued at 100 (eine hundert) kronen acquired there by Rene W. Schonfeldt, 12, when he was a prisoner in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp from September 1944-May 1945. The ghetto currency was distributed from May 1943, and Rene saved one of each denomination: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. The scrip was issued to create a false appearance of normalcy in the camp. There was nothing to obtain with the scrip. Soon after Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, Rene's parents Hans and Hanna fled Berlin with their infant son to Hilversum, Netherlands. In May 1940, Germa...

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    1. Ronald W. Schonfeld collection

    Theresienstadt scrip, valued at 1 (eine) krone acquired there by Rene W. Schonfeldt, 12, when he was a prisoner in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp from September 1944-May 1945. The ghetto currency was distributed from May 1943, and Rene saved one of each denomination: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. The scrip was issued to create a false appearance of normalcy in the camp. There was nothing to obtain with the scrip. Soon after Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, Rene's parents Hans and Hanna fled Berlin with their infant son to Hilversum, Netherlands. In May 1940, Germany occupied...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    1. Ronald W. Schonfeld collection

    Theresienstadt scrip, valued at 2 (zwei) kronen acquired there by Rene W. Schonfeldt, 12, when he was a prisoner in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp from September 1944-May 1945. The ghetto currency was distributed from May 1943, and Rene saved one of each denomination: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. The scrip was issued to create a false appearance of normalcy in the camp. There was nothing to obtain with the scrip. Soon after Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, Rene's parents Hans and Hanna fled Berlin with their infant son to Hilversum, Netherlands. In May 1940, Germany occupie...

  4. Vernier calipers used by a Jewish Polish worker in Oskar Schindler's armament factory

    1. Sam Klasner collection

    Vernier calipers, a measuring tool, used by Sam Klasner in Oskar Schindler's armament factory in Brünnlitz (Brnenec), in German occupied Czechoslovakia from October 1944-May 1945. The factory was a subcamp of Gross Rosen concentration camp. Schindler protected his workers from deportation, kept German camp personnel out of the camp, and did his best to provide food, although shortages were severe. In October 1944, when Schindler moved his factory from Płaszów to Brunnlitz, his workers were processed at Gross Rosen. Some were mistakenly sent to Auschwitz and had to be replaced. Sam had mech...

  5. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Box and needles used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and yo...

  6. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Bag and contents used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and y...

  7. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Container used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and young wo...

  8. Needle packet used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Needle packet used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and youn...

  9. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Box and needles used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and yo...

  10. Glass and silver keepsake box used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523782
    • English
    • 1938-1949
    • a: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) b: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)

    Small glass box with a silver lid box owned by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to c...

  11. Monaural stethoscope used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Monaural aluminum Pinard fetal stethoscope used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for Bergen-Belsen DP camp to care for children and young women. Before the war, Alice lived with her parents in Berlin, Germany, through the rise of the Nazi dictatorship with its increasingly harsh anti-...

  12. Drawing by Alexander Bogen of a woman sitting outdoors and working with her hands as two women stand and watch

    1. Alexander Bogen collection

    Sketch created by Alexander Bogen while he was a partisan fighter in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia during World War II. The sketch depicts a scene in a camp overseen by the partisans for civilian refugees hiding in the forest. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the p...

  13. Sandor Berko collection

    The collection consists of eighteen original photographs depicting Sandor Berko and his family before the war in Tiszalök, Hungary; his father in a forced labor battalion; Sandor and others in displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria; after the war in Tiszalök and in Sweden; and one Ketubah (marriage contract) of Sandor 's parents-in-law.

  14. Jewish ghetto police cap worn by an inmate/policeman at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    1. Fritz and Ilse Silten collection

    Ghetto watch cap that belonged to Fritz Joseph, an inmate at Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp who worked as a policeman there in 1944. Fritz and his wife, Betty, were deported from the Netherlands to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in July 1943. At the end of the year, they were sent to Theresienstadt. Then, at the end of 1944, they were transported to Auschwitz. Fritz was next sent to Meuselwitz labor camp where he was liberated by US troops on May 7, 1945. He was reunited with Betty and they returned to the Netherlands.

  15. Star of David badge with Jude for Jew worn by a young woman assigned to forced labor

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ruth Kittel, her sister, Hannelore, or their Jewish mother, Marie, while living with their Catholic father Josef under the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin, Germany. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked up government mandated Judenstern from the Office of the Jewish Organization because she, Hannelore, 17, and Maria had to wear one at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. In spring 1942, her Jewish school closed, and Ruth had to register as a forced laborer with the Work Office for Jews. In November, Ruth was assigned to the Osram light bu...

  16. Star of David badge with Jude for Jew worn by a young woman assigned to forced labor

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ruth Kittel, her sister, Hannelore, or their Jewish mother, Marie, while living with their Catholic father Josef under the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin, Germany. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked up government mandated Judenstern from the Office of the Jewish Organization because she, Hannelore, 17, and Maria had to wear one at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. In spring 1942, her Jewish school closed, and Ruth had to register as a forced laborer with the Work Office for Jews. In November, Ruth was assigned to the Osram light bu...

  17. Unused Star of David badge with Jude for Jew owned by a young woman assigned to forced labor

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge received but not used by Ruth Kittel, her sister, Hannelore, or their Jewish mother, Marie, while living with their Catholic father Josef under the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin, Germany. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked up government mandated Judenstern from the Office of the Jewish Organization because she, Hannelore, 17, and Maria had to wear one at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. In spring 1942, her Jewish school closed, and Ruth had to register as a forced laborer with the Work Office for Jews. In November, Ruth was assigned to t...

  18. Star of David badge with Jude for Jew worn by a young woman assigned to forced labor

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ruth Kittel, her sister, Hannelore, or their Jewish mother, Marie, while living with their Catholic father Josef under the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin, Germany. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked up government mandated Judenstern from the Office of the Jewish Organization because she, Hannelore, 17, and Maria had to wear one at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. In spring 1942, her Jewish school closed, and Ruth had to register as a forced laborer with the Work Office for Jews. In November, Ruth was assigned to the Osram light bu...

  19. Unused Star of David badge with Jude for Jew owned by a young woman assigned to forced labor

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge, not yet cut from square, received but not used by Ruth Kittel, her sister, Hannelore, or their Jewish mother, Marie, while living with their Catholic father Josef under the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin, Germany. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked up government mandated Judenstern from the Office of the Jewish Organization because she, Hannelore, 17, and Maria had to wear one at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. In spring 1942, her Jewish school closed, and Ruth had to register as a forced laborer with the Work Office for Jews. In Novemb...

  20. Star of David badge with Jude for Jew worn by a young woman assigned to forced labor

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ruth Kittel, her sister, Hannelore, or their Jewish mother, Marie, while living with their Catholic father Josef under the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin, Germany. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked up government mandated Judenstern from the Office of the Jewish Organization because she, Hannelore, 17, and Maria had to wear one at all times to identify themselves as Jewish. In spring 1942, her Jewish school closed, and Ruth had to register as a forced laborer with the Work Office for Jews. In November, Ruth was assigned to the Osram light bu...